Food-Processing-Plant-Design-layout

Food Processing Plant Design & layout
Module- 1. Introduction of food plant design and layout
Lesson 1. Introduction to plant design, situations, difference and considerations
1.1 Introduction
The manufacturing of food products of consistent quality and nutritional value at
affordable cost is essential to the success of the food industry today. The efficient use of
resources is, therefore, growing concern for all involved in handling of raw materials and
energy for processing, production, distribution and retailing of food. The unique features of
the raw materials of the food processing industries such as seasonality, perishability and
variability in conjunction with sophistication required for processing to maintain high
quality standards, necessitates special attention towards skilled technical manpower,
effective technologies, efficient machinery in the food plant.
Plant design refers to the overall design of a manufacturing enterprise / facility. It moves
through several stages before it is completed. The stages involved are: identification and
selection of the product to be manufactured, feasibility analysis and appraisal, design,
economic evaluation, design report preparation, procurement of materials including plant
and machinery, construction, installation and commissioning. The design should consider
the technical and economic factors, various unit operations involved, existing and potential
market conditions etc.
1.2 Plant design specifies
Flow charts and plant layouts spell out interconnections and raw material flows,
permanent/temporary storage, shop facilities, office spaces, delivery and shipping
facilities, access ways
Equipments, utilities and services to be used
Required instrumentation and interconnections for process monitoring and controls
Strategic site location, plan and elevation
They also often provide economic analyses of plant profitability in terms of various product
demand and price and material cost scenarios.
Plant design situations may arise due to one or more of the following:
design and erection of a completely new plant
design and erection of an addition to the existing plant
the facility or plant operations and subsequent expansion restricted by a
poor site, thereby necessitating the setting up of the plant at a new site
addition of some new product to the existing range
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